Sparcent Speeds Up Multi-Vector Search by Turning Centroids into Sparse Indices

Researchers have introduced Sparcent, a technique that uses learned sparse retrieval to accelerate the query-centroid matching stage of multi-vector dense retrieval, achieving up to 4.6 times speed-up over PLAID with virtually no extra memory.

Oct 12, 2026 - 15:00
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Sparcent Speeds Up Multi-Vector Search by Turning Centroids into Sparse Indices
Researchers have introduced Sparcent, a technique that uses learned sparse retrieval to accelerate the query-centroid matching stage of multi-vector dense retrieval, achieving up to 4.6 times speed-up over PLAID with virtually no extra memory.

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